Genuinely good movies that have went under the radar?

Felon.

Great movie never see it mentioned anywhere.

dougm1970 wrote: »

judgement night (1993)

i thought it was great...but its not well known, despite a great cast.

https://youtu.be/MDh3uICKIMc

Ipso wrote: »

Wasn’t Trespass out around the same time?

They were out within a year of each other. Hard to believe that some folk think that these films went under the radar though. They were pretty big on video back in the 90's. I think most people around then would remember them.

I like 'Judgement Night', even if it is a little stupid. Never saw 'Trespass' though. But, it's got a decent enough cast and it's a Walter Hill film, so I'll give it a go sometime.

ok...heres one.... wild bill. (2012)

please do not watch the trailer though...it portrays it as something it definitely isn't...makes it look like a light hearted comedy based flick...when its actually a solid, gritty, hard, yet emotional story where the acting is top notch.
i thought it was really good.

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"On the surface, Dexter Fletcher's directorial debut offers a familiar Brit-crim vehicle: an ex-con trying to go straight, his former toerag associates dragging him back into the mire.

But Wild Bill proves to have something more under the bonnet, and by the end it's been quite a ride. Charlie Creed-Miles is terrific as Bill, back on his old East End stamping ground after eight years in prison. His missus has done a runner, and Dean (Will Poulter), his older son, is blackmailing him into playing dad so that he and his younger brother won't get taken into care.

Feckless, shiftless and pretty hopeless, Bill has no clue about being a dad, or any other kind of responsible human being – down at his local he's known for "10 pints, two grams and a punch-up" – and now that aspiring gangster Terry (Leo Gregory) has him in his sights there seems scant possibility of escape.

Fletcher has assembled a strong cast, including Olivia Williams and Jaime Winstone as social workers, Andy Serkis as a council-estate Capone and Liz White as a tart with a heart, but it's in the vinegary wit of the script (written by Fletcher and Danny King) that the film most impresses: even the small asides and one-liners have a chuckle in them. The picture of east London (Newham), caught between Olympic regeneration and council squalor, feels grittily authentic. Fletcher, 46 but a screen face since youth, has turned his long experience around cameras to good use."

(independent)

cdgalwegian wrote: »

Blue Ruin

No big awards, no big budget, hardly heard of, yet 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. An atypical revenge story of an inept nobody-
“ A mysterious outsider's quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.”
Slow enough pace, punctuated with violence, it’s a well told heart-felt story.

Very visceral. Well worth a watch that.

I was a big Richard Pryor fan back in the day but his one film that always slipped by me was Moving from 1988. I remember recording it back in the mid 90s late night by accident just after The Terminator and to this day I still have to give it a re watch. Directed by the same guy who done Back to School so one should know what to expect from the kind of slapstick comedies that came out from around that time (even features Rodney Dangerfield in a small cameo).

Definitely not Pryors best but definitely his most underrated, his best movie by far has to be the hugely underrated Blue Collar great movie for anyone who hasn't seen it.

Optimus Prime wrote: »

"I Gave him the wrong goddamn finger!"

Great film!

I really have to see if I can get Moving anywhere. It must be 30 years since I saw it... I always remember "We're taking it with us!"

neirbloom wrote: »

Definitely not Pryors best but definitely his most underrated, his best movie by far has to be the hugely underrated Blue Collar great movie for anyone who hasn't seen it.

To Blockbusters manager:

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my copy of Blue Collar go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you and watch the tape."


On my list.

Session 9 (2001)
https://youtu.be/LsxkRNvEbhM
Very unsettling movie.